Veteran Trump Aide Caught Making Fortune in Insider Betting

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Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator raked in more than $100,000 using inside knowledge of what the president would say during his State of the Union address, a new report alleges.

Gabriel Perez, who has operated Trump’s teleprompter since 2016 and was one of only a handful of people to have a copy of Trump’s speech in advance, made the huge profit on the prediction market Kalshi this term, sources familiar with the matter tell https://abcnews.com/US/white-house-teleprompter-operator-made-100k-betting-trumps/story?id=134764573" rel="" target="_self" title="https://abcnews.com/US/white-house-teleprompter-operator-made-100k-betting-trumps/story?id=134764573">ABC News.

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